Concerned Citizen: Mr. President, what are you going to do about the economy?

President: Let me tell you a story. One day, on my way to dinner with some members of the press corps, a young man, probably about your age, came up to me and said, “Mr. President, what are you going to do about the economy?,” and I said, “I’m going to tell you what we are going to do about that. It’s about a fair and balanced approach…let me repeat that…a fair and balanced approach.”

Concerned Citizen: Yes, but [interrupted]

President: So then he said, “Yes, but” and I said to this young man, “Let me tell you a story. One day, on my way to dinner with some members of the press corps, a young man, probably about your age, came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, what are you going to do about the economy?,’ and I said, ‘I’m going to tell you what we are going to do about that. It’s about a fair and balanced approach…let me repeat that…a fair and balanced approach.’”

I was at a bar-b-que, when a friend of mine mentioned that her friends were going out to California soon. I started talking to them and learned they would be taking a road trip from LA to San Francisco via PCH. Then, I told them about one of the best restaurants en route, The Reel Inn in Malibu. By the time I am finishing rounding out my praises for their handling of the swordfish fishing moratorium, this man interrupts me and says that he and his wife are vegans, so they don’t eat meat, or even fish for that matter. So, I said, “Why, then, are you at a bar-b-que?”

One time I was flying to Beirut for business. About the time meal service was starting, the man next to me stood up and announced he was hijacking the plane. The flight attendant went up to him and told him that the plane was already on its way to Beirut. He thanked her, sat down, and then proceeded to order the chicken.